You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.
TENNESSEE WILLIAMSEverybody is nothing until you love them.
More Tennessee Williams Quotes
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The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.
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We are all of us born, live and die in the shadow of a giant question mark that refers to three questions: Where do we come from? Why? And where, oh where, are we going!
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A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.
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And then you accept it. Or you kill yourself. Or you stop looking in mirrors.
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I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action.
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Whomever I love and am with most of the time, or whomever I remember most vividly. I think that’s true of everyone, don’t you?
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There comes a time when you look into the mirror and you realize that what you see is all that you will ever be.
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Nothing’s more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.
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The Venus flytrap, a devouring organism, aptly named for the goddess of love.
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There are no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ people. Some are a little better or a little worse, but all are activated more by misunderstanding than malice.
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An artist must believe in himself – Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence – but passionately.
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It is only in his work that an artist can find reality and satisfaction, for the actual world is less intense than the world of his invention and consequently his life, without recourse to violent disorder, does not seem very substantial.
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A blindness to what is going on in each other’s hearts.
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Physical beauty is passing – a transitory possession – but beauty of the mind, richness of the spirit, tenderness of the heart – I have all these things – aren’t taken away but grow! Increase with the years!
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In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
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